The Midwest Is Such A Tabula Rasa.

If You're Going To Immerse Yourself In A Project For Three Years, Why Not Stake Out A Chunk Of The World That Is Completely Alien To You And Go Traveling?

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

Evil Is The Refusal To See One's Self In Others.

The Job Of Taste Was To Thin The Insane Torrent Of Human Creativity Down To Manageable Levels. But The Job Of Appetite Was Never To Be Happy With Taste.

I Don't Mind Arguing With Myself. It's When I Lose That It Bothers Me.